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Sunday, Jun. 05, 2005 - 9:49 p.m. So� I�ll tell you one fish story (all true, btw). Thursday. I left work and ran home long enough to feedthedogstakethemoutsidemakeourlunchesandgrabmytackle, and I was out the door. I made it to N.P.P.Lake by 4:30. That is some serious ass-hauling by yours truly. I headed to the bridge where we had caught a few decent catfish over the past few weeks. Brought all I needed to make sure I brought a few more home for the freezer, too ( two kinds of stink bait, heavier tackle, and a bucket to hold my catch). I fished for 1 � hours, and had a bunch of bites. In that time,. I landed a total of 1 fish. No, not a catfish. The one fish dumb enough to get caught on one of my treble hooks was a 5� long Bluegill. Yes, on stinky, smells like death, dough. Why? I have no idea. That had never happened to me before that moment. But at that point, I had had enough. So� I loaded up all my stuff and headed over to the visitors station of the power plant. I was hoping that a few late-spawning Crappies would be still hanging around the rocks, and that they would hit my jigs. After another 30 minutes of fruitless casting, I realized that wasn�t going to happen. I had noticed a few splashes in the shallow water to the west of the rocks, so I decided to It is a little early for the �gills to be spawning, but that didn�t mean that they weren�t getting ready for the act. The bigger males had already started fighting over prime spawning areas. That was what was causing all the commotion. So� I changed my rod over to a shallow Bluegill rig. This consisted of 2 of my tinsel jigs tied about 4� apart, with a small cork less than 6� above the top jig. This rig has really worked good for me on spawning �gills in the past. In about 40 minutes, I landed about the same number of nice male Bluegills. And� 2 keeper-sized Channel Catfish. That�s right- the only thing I caught on catfish dough was a single small Bluegill. And the only keeper-sized (but released, even though one weighed at least 3 pounds- it was getting late at the time) catfish came on a tiny rig that I had set up to catch Bluegills. Strange fishing indeed�.
Bluegill, Carp, White Crappie, White Bass, Yellow Bass, Largemouth Bass, Green Sunfish, and Drum Perch. If we had kept every fish we landed (even though several would have gotten us tickets from a game warden), we could have fed maybe 4 (very hungry) people. Strange fishing, indeed� We bought a nice Amish-made angel food cake yesterday on our journeys. Add to that the ripe strawberries a farm stand had to sell, and the strawberry jam I made last week (but forgot to add lemon juice to, making it low PH and unsafe to store on the shelves downstairs), and with Lease�s creative mind you end up with this:
That�s the overhead view. Here is how it looked from the side:
Sorry if you are presently on a diet, but it is just too pretty not to share with you here. My slice is waiting for me in the bedroom. Later�
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